by FRED PAWLE – CONSERVATIVES didn’t start the culture wars, but we will end them – with Western erudition and eloquence, and not with Leftist-style slogans and abuse. My writings have been relatively scant lately. I have an excuse. We need to…
by SCOTT JOHNSON – AUSTRALIA’S e-safety commissioner – and American-born feminist – Julie Inman Grant has again refused to front-up before the US Congress. She was initially requested to attend in November 2025 by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. The…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE only people who enjoy real free speech in Australia are the retired and those who don’t depend on government for their income. If you are an employee, forget it. No free speech for you. The process is familiar….
by DAVID FLINT – AS A boy, my father occasionally took me to a place where free speech wasn’t just a constitutional abstraction, but a vigorous living exercise. This was Sydney’s Domain – another “Speakers’ Corner” in one of the world’s oldest…
by PAUL COLLITS – GOUGH Whitlam once responded to a heckler at a public gathering who was banging on about his policy on abortion by saying, “Madam, in your case could we make it retrospective?” Well, hate speech is in the news,…
by FRED PAWLE – WHY would a politician bother trying to improve a nation when it’s easier to ruin it instead? If you are a politician who, for whatever reason, wants to destroy the nation you govern, follow these four simple but…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR civilisational decline is now fuelled by unrestrained hatred and the hypocrisy of disinterested elites. One doesn’t hear the Ernest Hemingway Law of Motion mentioned very often these days. About a quarter of Australians are now either on…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the many unforgivable things the Liberals did in government was to allow the censorship of free speech, executed ironically by Peter Dutton’s then Home Affairs bureaucrats. The Liberal Party had got itself into a tizz over…
by FRED PAWLE – POLITICIANS and legacy-media proprietors have good reasons to support restrictions on social media, which have nothing to do with children’s safety. Orwell’s dictum that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them” was spectacularly superseded not…
by MONICA O’SHEA – AUSTRALIA’S eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has confirmed her agency will enforce the Parliament’s impending ban on under 16s accessing social media. Social media corporations could face fines of $49.5m for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent…
